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A reference to someone or something that is known from history, religion, politics, mythology, pop culture, etc.
What is an allusion.
The attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject.
What is tone.
Repetition of the same consonant sounds close together at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration.
The central character in a story. Often the hero.
What is a protagonist.
A narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.
What is an allegory.
The associations and overtones that are attached to a word. Not a strict definition.
What is a connotation.
The narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view.
The repetition of similar vowel sounds.
What is assonance.
A "play on words"
What is a pun.
A local or regional dialect expression
What is colloqualism.
Descriptive language that engages the human senses
What is imagery.
The narrator exists outside the events of the story, and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the third-person pronouns he, she, or they.
What is third person.
The use of words whose sounds echo their sense.
What is onomatopoeia
Written language not in poetic form.
What is prose.
The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant
What is a euphemism.
A device used to persuade or subtly influence the audience. It's a question asked not for the answer, but for the effect.
What is a rhetorical question.
The narrator does not have any insight into the characters' thoughts or feelings beyond what they show through their actions, words, and expressions.
What is objective pov
The recurrence or repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables without the similar correspondence of vowels
What is consonance.
An object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts or attitudes.
What is personification.
The repeated syntactical similarities introduced for rhetorical effect.
What is parallelism.
A literary device in which a writer uses one thing—usually a physical object or phenomenon—to represent something more abstract.
What is a symbol.
The continuous unedited chronological flow of conscious experience through the mind
What is stream of consciousness
A regularly recurring phrase or verse especially at the end of each stanza or division of a poem or song
What is a refrain.
A statement that appears contradictory but reveals a truth.
What is a paradox.
Exaggerated pride or self-confidence
What is hubris.